A lot of my friends from university are consultants and guess how they got their current job? They worked together on a client's project with the guy who's now their boss. Every one of them. And it totally makes sense - imagine you're working together with people from other companies for several months on the same project. It's like a trial period. And at the end, when the project is finished, you ask the guys you liked to work with the most, if they want to switch to your company. No interviews, no coding tests, no brain teasers, some of them even had no official trial period after switching.
Smells like nepotism? Not at all! None of their bosses knew them before, they didn't study together and were not in the same sports club - it's all based on the experience of how working together worked out for them. And isn't that the most important aspect in our jobs?
Unfortunately we developers are rarely being sent to clients, working on projects together with other companies... :-(
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Most consultancies forbid this kind of thing. I know I was not allowed to work with any clients for 2 years after I left. Everything sucked about consulting except that I learned a lot from working 80 hours a week.
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The link to the clean your desk story (Amazon) is definitely worth a read.
A lot of my friends from university are consultants and guess how they got their current job? They worked together on a client's project with the guy who's now their boss. Every one of them. And it totally makes sense - imagine you're working together with people from other companies for several months on the same project. It's like a trial period. And at the end, when the project is finished, you ask the guys you liked to work with the most, if they want to switch to your company. No interviews, no coding tests, no brain teasers, some of them even had no official trial period after switching.
Smells like nepotism? Not at all! None of their bosses knew them before, they didn't study together and were not in the same sports club - it's all based on the experience of how working together worked out for them. And isn't that the most important aspect in our jobs?
Unfortunately we developers are rarely being sent to clients, working on projects together with other companies... :-(
Most consultancies forbid this kind of thing. I know I was not allowed to work with any clients for 2 years after I left. Everything sucked about consulting except that I learned a lot from working 80 hours a week.